CVE-2019-11596

mediumpriority · track · 31EPSS 0.030 · 87 %ileEUUS
grimoire priorityP3 · Track
Exploitable?
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no known exploitation
Likely / severe?
2.96% (87th) EPSS
CVSS 5 · medium
Is it mine?
13 products
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Who says so?
4 sources
cnnvd · enisa_euvd · nvd · redhat_csaf

EPSS · scored 2026-10-27

In memcached before 1.5.14, a NULL pointer dereference was found in the "lru mode" and "lru temp_ttl" commands. This causes a denial of service when parsing crafted lru command messages in process_lru_command in memcached.c.

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remediations

Vendor fix, mitigation, or workaround guidance, as published by each source.

A vendor fix is available.

  • Fixedmemcached-0:1.4.39-3.el7ost.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat OpenStack Platform 13.0redhat_csaf

    For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to: https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

    https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:5583
  • Fixedmemcached-0:1.4.39-3.el7ost.src as a component of Red Hat OpenStack Platform 13.0redhat_csaf

    For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to: https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

    https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:5583
  • Fixedmemcached-0:1.4.39-3.el7ost.src as a component of Red Hat OpenStack Platform 13.0 for RHEL 7.6 EUS Serverredhat_csaf

    For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to: https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

    https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:5583
  • Fixedmemcached-0:1.4.39-3.el7ost.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat OpenStack Platform 13.0redhat_csaf

    For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to: https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

    https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:5583
  • Fixedmemcached-0:1.4.39-3.el7ost.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat OpenStack Platform 13.0 for RHEL 7.6 EUS Serverredhat_csaf

    For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to: https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

    https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:5583
  • Fixedmemcached-debuginfo-0:1.4.39-3.el7ost.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat OpenStack Platform 13.0redhat_csaf

    For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to: https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

    https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:5583
  • Fixedmemcached-debuginfo-0:1.4.39-3.el7ost.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat OpenStack Platform 13.0redhat_csaf

    For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to: https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

    https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:5583
  • Fixedmemcached-debuginfo-0:1.4.39-3.el7ost.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat OpenStack Platform 13.0 for RHEL 7.6 EUS Serverredhat_csaf

    For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to: https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

    https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:5583
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cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

7.5
010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · medium–high · 5–7.5

v2.05mediumAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:Pprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 10 · impact 2.9
v3.07.5highCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:Hprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 3.9 · impact 3.6
v3.06.9mediumCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)
v3.07.5highCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:Hsecondary · Red Hat Product Security US
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weaknesses

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affected products (13)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

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advisories (1)

Vendor and ecosystem advisories describing this.

  • RHSA-2020:5583Red Hat Security Advisory: memcached security update2020-12-16csaf · redhat_csafUS

    An update for memcached is now available for Red Hat OpenStack Platform 13 (Queens). Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

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also known as (3)

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sources

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published 2019-04-29modified 2026-06-17
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references (33)

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